It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
7 GoodGymers made their way to help the St Christopher's Hospice in Bromley.
- Friday, 2nd of December 2022
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Led by
Mark Gilyead
he/him
Six GoodGymers got into the Christmas spirit by putting up and decorating Christmas trees at St Christopher's Hospice.
We met the lovely Rebecca (and the St Christopher's cat!) at reception and were taken up to the hospice chapel to decorate our first tree. Kate quickly took on the role of Art Director, planning themes for each tree, while Alison stepped up to the challenge of untangling various decorations, including a REALLY long chain of beads (see photos). Meanwhile, Hannah and Vic put up the first tree as Carla, Rebecca, Kate and I sorted through the decorations. It wouldn't be a Good Gym task without a bit of make do and mend and Rebecca and Carla came up with some ingenious paperclip-based solutions to ensure that even the broken baubles could be attached to the tree. The end result was a snazzy blue and silver number complete with silver icicles... brrrilliant!
We then took the remaining decorations over to the CARE centre where we set to work constructing and decorating our second tree, spurred on by mince pies and Christmas tunes provided by Rebecca. We went for a very classy red, gold AND silver theme this time (because MORE IS MORE when it comes to Christmas tree decorating), then wrapped up with a group photo in front of our creation. Nice work team!
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Led by Mark Gilyead
Area Activator for GoodGym Bromley. Mostly runs for the train. On purpose obvs. Also helping to launch new GG areas with the central team 🚀
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Ha. This is a great report! Sounds like you did a great job with some dodgy decorations...!
I just wanted to say that I loved the real GoodGym attitude to the broken decorations and know that both staff, patients and community members will be able to enjoy the trees. I’ve had a few emails about the trees already this morning saying they look lovely and your help is much appreciated!
This was such a fun task and I'm glad the trees have been approved of!
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